Weird Texas: Your travel guide to Texas's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
10 best books like Weird Texas: Your travel guide to Texas's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Wesley Treat): Pumpkinheads, Sunflower House, The Water Dancer, The Chelsea Girls, Gin & Daggers, Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey, Planet Middle School, The Funeral Planner, Natural Health, Natural Medicine, All in a Day
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.
Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye...
| Author | Eve Bunting |
| ISBN | 0152019529 |
What a fun book about sunflowers. A family plant sunflower seeds in a circle and they grow all summer long. It makes a nice house for the boy of the house to play in with his friends. It’s the perfect house until the flowers start to fall over heavy with seeds.
I love the artwork here and I love that...
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about the twenty-year friendship that...
| Author | Jessica Fletcher |
| ISBN | 0451199987 |
This is the first novel in the long-running Murder, She Wrote book series that accompanies the show of the same name.
In Gin & Daggers, Jessica Fletcher finds herself traveling to London to give an opening speech, and in doing so makes time to spend with a dear friend, who happens to be the...
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
| Author | Rachel Simon |
| ISBN | 0452284554 |
Rachel Simon's sister Beth is a spirited woman who lives intensely and often joyfully, despite her intellectual disability. Beth spends her days riding the buses in her Pennsylvania city. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. One day, Beth asked Rachel...
| Author | Nikki Grimes |
| ISBN | 1599902842 |
For twelve years, Joylin Johnson's life has been just fine, thank you very much. A game of basketball with the boys-especially her friend Jake-was all it took to put a smile on her face. Baggy jeans, T-shirt, and hair in a ponytail were easy choices. Then suddenly the world seemed to turn upside down, and...
This book was so frustrating! I liked the start but the middle and end dragged on. Maddy is always being abused/ exploited by her arch rival who always ends up on top. There was so many deaths in this book. If she wasn’t a funeral planner, would there have been so many people to die?? I didn’t find it realistic...
| Author | Andrew Weil |
| ISBN | 0618479031 |
The bible of natural medicine" (Larry Dossey, M.D.), Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates...
| Author | Cynthia Rylant |
| ISBN | 0810983214 |
This lovely book illuminates all the possibilities a day offers—the opportunities and chances that won’t ever come again—and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Newbery Medal winner Cynthia Rylant’s poetic text, alongside Nikki McClure’s stunning, meticulously...
By the Light of the Halloween Moon
| Author | Caroline Stutson |
| ISBN | 0140553053 |
A series of creatures, from a black cat to a witch, a ghoul to a ghost, each attempt to tickle or prick the tapping toe hanging down from a dock in this entertaining Halloween picture-book. As one after the other is foiled by the next creature, they eventually attract the attention of the toe-owner - a fiddle-playing...
| Author | Will Hubbell |
| ISBN | 0807566667 |
A boy carves a pumpkin that becomes a friend. Well, it starts to smell bad and the boy has to set it out in the garden where he watches it decompose. Seasons change and when the snow melts, not much is left of the pumpkin. He does notice a new green shoot and he knows it’s a new pumpkin vine. He nourishes this...
The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
| Author | Erle Stanley Gardner |
| ISBN | 0345321561 |
*Erle Stanley Gardner is cited by the "Guinness Book of World Records" as the #1 bestselling writer of all time.
In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live for life. But Laxter's grandson Sam says the deal doesn't include the caretaker's cat. When Perry Mason...
| Author | Sam Wyly |
| ISBN | 1595910743 |
“It ain’t bragging if it’s true.” –a rodeo bull rider
Why are jobs moving from the once Golden State of California to the Lone Star State of Texas? Why are the best and the brightest moving from Chicago and Detroit to Austin and Houston and Dallas? Why are Massachusetts, New York, Ohio,...
| Author | Robert M. McClung |
| ISBN | 0870441221 |
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Baby Birds and How They Grow
| Author | Jane R. McCauley |
| ISBN | 0870444875 |
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Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
| Author | Bill O'Reilly |
| ISBN | 1250165547 |
Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including...
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423178289 |
They say, “All good things must come to an end.”
I harrumph and ask, “Why?”
Through the years, I've collected each new book as they are published. Now I've finally added the last and final book to this loving series, and it feels...overwhelming. I'm sadden that it's come to...
